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SubjectRe: Finalized FPU Crash Fix? [2.2.x]
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On Thursday 17 of June 2004 18:08, Josh Myer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Is there a general concensus that the one-liner in 2.6.7 is an
> appropriate fix for the FPU hang/crash bug? I have several machines
> running 2.4.x which require that outside people have shell access.
> Needless to say, I'm somewhat nervous about this problem =)
And how this look in 2.2.x kernels? One guy here tells me that after running
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html#toc1the 2.2
kernel freezes.

Is such fix right one? 2.2.x doesn't crash with it.

Index: SOURCES/kernel-fwait-2.2.patch
diff -u /dev/null SOURCES/kernel-fwait-2.2.patch:1.1
--- /dev/null Thu Jun 17 15:34:42 2004
+++ SOURCES/kernel-fwait-2.2.patch Thu Jun 17 15:34:36 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- linux-2.2.26/include/asm-i386/processor.h~ Thu Jun 17 17:19:57 2004
++++ linux-2.2.26/include/asm-i386/processor.h Thu Jun 17 17:32:36 2004
+@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@
+
+ #define clear_fpu(tsk) do { \
+ if (tsk->flags & PF_USEDFPU) { \
++ asm volatile("fnclex ; fwait"); \
+ tsk->flags &= ~PF_USEDFPU; \
+ stts(); \
+ } \
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
arekm.pld-linux.org, 1024/3DB19BBD, JID: arekm.jabber.org, PLD/Linux
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